Be proactive, take your body temperature, do the symptom worksheet,
get a saliva test for adrenals.
You can
get a saliva test done to confirm melatonin levels.
After countless visits to various doctors who prescribed various sleeping tablets and anxiety tabs that did not help I finally met a naturapath who requsted me to
get saliva test to check my cortisol levels.
I also recommend
getting a saliva test as they tend to be more accurate than blood tests.
Got a saliva test and my progesterone is very high along with my P4 / E2 ratio is through the roof, my DHEAS are mid range and testosterone a bit low and my E3 very low.
Not exact matches
It takes about three weeks to
get the results of the
saliva test, which looks for three combinations of ACTN3 genes, with a child
getting one variant from his mother and one from his father.
If you have an extra moment in the morning,
get out your litmus paper and to
test your pH. Use either
saliva or urine (the second pee of the day will give you a more accurate reading).
I run both blood and
saliva hormone
testing to
get a full perspective.
I have never
gotten them checked except with a
saliva test which said I was low cortisol in the morning and afternoon and normal and
getting higher at night.
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I ended up ordering the
saliva test and
testing on day 20 of my cycle and
got these results: Estradiol: 1.1 pg / ml range: 1.3 - 3.3 low Progesterone: 42 pg / ml range: 75 - 270 low Testosterone: 107 pg / ml range: 16 - 55 high DHEAS: 14.8 pg / ml range: 2 - 23 Cortisol: 8.0 pg / ml range: 3.7 - 9.5 (morning)
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Actually,
saliva hormone
testing is considered by many experts to be much more reliable (there are studies published that demonstrate it better indicates bioavailable hormones - i.e. what actually
get into your tissues / cells to be used).
Getting your hormones levels
tested via blood or
saliva is very helpful in creating a treatment plan.
The downside of the 24 - hour urine
testing is you don't
get that diurnal rhythm just like with
saliva.
Then you
get all of the metabolites that you would
get from 24 - hour urine
testing, including the total amount of cortisol, et cetera, but you also
get the benefit of the four different time readings of
saliva testing.
You can
get your adrenals
tested with adrenal
saliva tests.
Second,
testing by blood,
saliva or urine may be recommended to
get a clearer picture or what is going on in your body.
Get your estrodial and progesterone levels
tested either through blood or
saliva if you have 5 or more of these symptoms!
If I
get the blood and
saliva tests done for adrenals that you recommend in your book and the results are considered relatively normal, is it still possible to have adrenal fatigue / issues?
Traditionally, all hormone
testing is done via serum (or blood), but these days, we can use serum,
saliva, urine, or a combination of all three to
get the full picture.
One drawback of salivary
testing is that
saliva gets oversaturated when patients are on hormone replacement therapy, leading to an abnormally high result.
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You might want to consider
getting a
saliva hormone level
test to find out if a hormone imbalance is indeed contributing to your insomnia.
A lot of these
saliva tests will also measure other hormone levels as well in order to
get a better read of how far along you are in the adrenal fatigue decline.
For example, you can order a
saliva test kit from 23andme.com, and many individuals can
get the
tests from their physicians covered by insurance.
4)
Get your adrenals
tested with an adrenal
saliva tests.
To
get reliable and accurate measurement of cortisol, one should ideally do multiple
saliva tests over the course of 24 hours.
Join nutritionist Meryl Brandwein and the girls of Mission Makeover as they pay a visit to Dr. Terrance Harris of the Womens Wellness Center of Boca Raton Florida to
get their blood and
saliva tested.
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